About Inspiration and Experiences

Guess what? Write 2B Read podcast is almost 1 years old and its
birthday is on July 1st. I thought about how to celebrate that
milestone and yes it deserves a celebration because I have super
unstable personality and for me a year is quite long… So I
thought what to do and realized that this podcast would not stay
alive until now if not you - my listeners. And it became
completely clear to me that whatever I decide to do should be
done with you. That is why I came up with the idea of having a
live Q&A hangout with anyone who would like to join me to
celebrate together our podcast’s birthday.


I thought that it would be nice to finally get together and have
fun. Besides I have never done videos before and most of you have
only heard my voice, so this will be the first time I’ll quit my
comfort zone and get on live video for you. You will be able to
ask me anything you’d like to know and I will do my best to
answer… but guess what? I don’t know everything so if there will
be questions, which I don’t know how to answer I will either
cover those in the upcoming podcasts or get a guest who knows
about the topic ok? And maybe… I will also get a surprise guest
for you. In any case I think it will be fun and I’d love to have
you there.
Simply click here and register to the hangout. I will do
the rest :)

If for some reason you will not be able to make it live - don't
worry. Make sure you register and I will send you the
recording. 


Today I will have a solo piece and I’ll share with you my
thoughts about inspiration and experiences.


We all had periods when we were not inspired enough. When we
opened our computer screen and stared at it with no clue what to
write about, or how to start what we thought about writing … as a
result we got irritated, it made things worse and it is very
probable that we gave up, shut the screen and left the desk… It
has happened to me many times. And it does not feel good at all.


So where one should look for inspiration? Is it something that
comes to you whenever it wants? Is that unexplainable muse
controlling when and how you write? I don’t want to believe in
that because as soon as I do I will feel as if nothing is under
my control and I am not a writer but rather inspiration’s tool
which it uses to express its thought…


Thinking back I realize that one can draw inspiration almost from
everything. Life itself is a great source of inspiration. And I
know what you might think - compared to all those books with
amazing life stories yours might not be so interesting or so
inspiring… and that might be true… but there are still ways even
in that case. My life has never been dull to be honest and I’ve
always been through different stuff which could eventually make a
good story but I have not yet gained the courage to write about
my life yet… at least not the way it should be written. But I
have written about other people’s lives instead. My both novels
Highball and Dreamdown were written based o true life stories,
which later were modified into fiction. So yes, if at this point
for some reason you don’t think that your life could be source of
inspiration for your stories turn to other people’s lives. You
don’t know people, who's lives inspire you? Cool - pay attention
to the content shared on social media, see what stories are in
there and get interesting life stories from there. Or simply get
out of the house, go to a coffee shop and while you breath in the
aroma  and enjoy every sip - watch people. Watch them and
come up with their life stories - who are they? Why are they here
now? Where they will go after they finish their coffee? Who do
they love? Why do they look sad or tired? What dreams do they
have?


There is Benjamin Franklin